Northern Ladies' Civil War Fashions 1861–1865 contains historically accurate descriptions and illustrations of clothing, shoes, bonnets, jewelry, hairstyles, hoopskirts, corsets, and other undergarments of Northern women from 1861 to 1865 and information on the making, purchasing, and decoration of garments during the Civil War. Also includes information on clothing worn by nurses that served during the Civil War.

Sources include newspapers and magazines from the period, and later memoirs.